Historic win for Pulse over Steel
by Kate Buchanan
The Central Pulse made history last Saturday – unfortunately at the expense of the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel.
Notching up its first victory over the southern franchise since the ANZ Championship’s inception in 2008, the 47-42 win in Napier was no doubt sweetly satisfying for a Pulse team determined to have an impact in 2012.
For the Steel however, it was a frustrating defeat which resulted from a failure to establish any consistent rhythm, most notably on attack.
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What's really 'Behind the Steel' ?
Ever wondered what Jodi Brown's favourite food is? Or what Demelza McCloud wanted to be when she grew up? Did Hayley Saunders ALWAYS do her homework? And just who is the secret baker in the Steel line-up ?
These and other searching questions have been answered in our special 'Behind the Steel' look at our players.
We've produced a great new kids book with the help of our good friends at Clicked Yet and Solid Energy, and each week we'll be unveiling a new page on our website.
For our second 'expose' on Demelza McCloud, CLICK HERE
Demelza McCloud is also writing a weekly newspaper column throughout the season, giving her unique view on the team, the matches, the competition and life in general with the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel.
We'll be publishing her column on our website each week, courtesy of the Southland Times :
Not the end of the world yet
by Demelza McCloud
Don’t you just love the rollercoaster of emotions a week in sport can take you on. Last week we went from the jubilation, joy and relief of winning our first match to within seven days finding ourselves in a trough of misery, grief and depression at losing for the first time to Central Pulse.
To make it worse, I’m quite possibly the world’s most terrible loser. Not in a bad sportsmanship type of way, but in a severe personal turmoil and hatred kind of way. In the space of 90 minutes I went from exclaiming to our girls, ‘how great is our job’ to questioning why I even bother. However it’s that passion that drives my motivation to win, that keeps me on this rollercoaster, and loving it, through those extreme highs and disappointing lows.
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